Sergey Barkovsky

Based on a story by H.C. Andersen, with new magical heroes, terrifying “woodpunk” robot dogs, real puppet theater, songs & dance numbers. Little Hans, a kind itinerant storyteller, opens his magic box, takes out his puppets, and, together with his spectators, creates a new fairytale. But not every character obeys the puppet master’s strings. The truth of the fairytale breaks everyday rules: here loyalty and friendship make miracles; love destroys the strongest magic spells; and a song wins a war!

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A young psychic charlatan, Vitya, has a gift for scamming desperate people for money. And while conversations with the "ghosts of the dead" provide him with a luxurious life, Vitya's conscience is silent.

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December 1941. Leningrad. The story centers on the main character, who, together with other employees, saves zoo animals from shelling. The people themselves are on the brink of life and death, but they do not abandon the hippopotamus named Krasavitsa.

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Former police officer Sergey returns home - but his home is gone. His home district, cut off from the outside world by a mysterious anomaly, is now called a reservation. There is no communication or normal rules in the reservation, and any attempt to leave its borders ends in death. Hoping to uncover the secret of the anomaly and get his family out of the trap, Sergey makes his way into the closed territory.

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On New Year's Eve, nine-year-old Vanya from Kirov, having learned of his parents' separation, sets off for Veliky Ustyug to ask Father Frost for a miracle.

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A person with amnesia writes down his memories in an attempt to reconstruct his life history.

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Pyotr I is one of the key figures in world history. His indomitable energy, clear mind, incredible persistence, hard work and strict principled character allowed him to completely change the social structure of the Russian Empire. His path was thorny - he was faced not only with victories and success, but also with defeats, disappointments, mistakes and betrayal of those closest to him.

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Outstanding oratorical talent and natural wit help Fyodor Plevako to smash the accusers in court, and ordinary people consider him a hero.

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Misha's life didn't go well. Overnight, he lost his girlfriend, his job, and his confidence in the future. Having bought an armchair on Avito, he finds inside a folder with documents and a huge amount of money belonging to the right hand of the governor of the city. Thinking about what to do with the find, Mikhail begins to gradually fix communal defects in the yard, which deserves the respect of residents and the status of a people's deputy. However, the governor discovers the loss of documents, and elections are coming soon in the city... Will popular love and a mysterious folder help Misha take the governor's chair?

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1989-1990. General Secretary of the CPSU Mikhail Gorbachyov begins global transformations in the USSR. He passionately wants to become a star in world politics and for this he is ready to go as far as he can to meet the West. But the perestroika planned by Gorbachyov leads to fatal, irreversible consequences. Intelligence officer Alexander Nechaev finds himself at the center of an operation organized by the intelligence services of several countries. During the months spent in Berlin at the moment of the breakdown of the entire post-war world order, Nechaev changed a lot. He no longer knows who is a friend and who is a traitor, but continues to defend the honor and interests of his Motherland...

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Moscow, 1902. The famous director Konstantin Stanislavsky, in search of inspiration for staging a new play, decides to get acquainted with the life of the city "bottom". He turns to Vladimir Gilyarovsky, a recognized expert on the Moscow slums, for help.

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The story of Fyodor Chaliapin is a man who grew up in a peasant family, but was able to break into the brilliant world of theater and conquered heights that no one had ever reached before. Did he find the love of millions, could not achieve personal happiness on his own and make a choice between two beloved women? About how the strength of character and talent can lift a person to the stars and give them the opportunity to shine all over the world.

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Maksim is so busy at work, trying to do everything and not let his boss down, that he does not notice the most important things in his life. On the anniversary of meeting his beloved girl Sasha, after an accidental quarrel with an unusual taxi driver Tamara Petrovna, completely inexplicable events begin to happen to Maksim - he will have to live his life on rewind.

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Struggling for a daughter, hooked on heroin, the father had to get acquainted with the underground life of Saint-Petersburg. He doesn’t trust the police. Together with his friend he unravels the drug dealers network in order to stop the drug addiction that conquered the city in the 90s. Will they have enough powers to make it to the end?

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Leningrad, spring 1942. After the first winter of the siege, the conductor of the Grand Symphony Orchestra of the Radio Committee receives an important government task — to perform Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 in the besieged city. It seems impossible — there are only a few musicians left of the orchestra: someone died of hunger, someone went to the front, and someone went missing. But the concert must take place and thunder all over the world, so that both friends and enemies can hear: "Leningrad is alive!" NKVD officer Anatoly Seregin was seconded to help the orchestra's leader Karl Eliasberg.

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On June 21, 1941, the artists of the traveling circus tent under the direction of the famous hypnotist Andrei Belov, who performs under the pseudonym the Great Armando, give their first performance in a small Latvian town. During the performance of the number under the dome, Belov's wife, the aerial equilibrist Elsa, sees a little girl among the audience, meets her eyes, loses her balance and falls into the arena. This girl is a copy of Masha, the daughter of Elsa and Belov, who died five years ago.

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The story of three great actresses applying for one role in the play, each of whom once had an affair with the artistic director of the theater. In the enchanting atmosphere of the backstage, it is highlighted: what roles were played on the stage, and what in life, who is to blame for this and how to forgive? After all, life is the same theater, only without rehearsals and repetitions. But the sworn diva girlfriends have yet to face the trials of the new reality. Legends of the theater, artists of a wonderful, but passing century, will meet contemporary art “not for everyone” and will try to figure out what to do for all of us, the rest. Who will win: loyalty to the old theater or the modern "version of the theater" - formalism from a young shocking amateur director, on whose side his father is an official.

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The picture tells about the feat of Russian scientists who are sent to Svalbard as part of the Russian-Swedish expedition in order to measure the actual size and shape of the globe.

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1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century those who should not be destined to meet, come together. They are people from different worlds: Matvey, the son of a lamplighter, whose only treasure is his silver-plated skates; Alice is the daughter of a high-ranking official dreaming of science. Each of them has his own difficult life-story, but having accidentally met they rush forward together in pursuit of their dreams.

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Shorty after the 1917 Russian Revolution, during the New Economic Policy era, a criminal becomes a police officer through a case of mistaken identity and uses his knowledge to solve cases previously out of reach of the force.

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A strange envelope is delivered to an architect bureau by mistake. Igor, a driver, gets the task to bring it to the right address. From that moment his life becomes a string of paranormal events. The cursed letter invades Igor's life and leads him to a mysterious addressee.

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After an alien ship crash lands in a Russian city, many who see the inside and the occupants start to question their own existence while others demand the aliens leave Earth.

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The beginning of the 70s. Major Cherkasov and his team are investigating a new case. This time we are talking about robberies. And this is the sphere of management for combating theft of socialist property (UBKhSS). During the robberies, the bandits mercilessly kill witnesses. The robberies are well organized and well thought out. And someone very knowledgeable prepares them. The leadership decides to unite the efforts of two departments of the Moscow militia against the "outlaws": the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the UBKHS. Together they are preparing an operation to arrest the gang.

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Fantastic story of the first half of the XIX century about a monk named Ivan who must fight the dark forces in his monastery.

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In the early 1980s, the struggle for power intensified among the party elite of the USSR. Leonid Brezhnev's illness and total corruption have forced the security forces to choose what the future of the country will be. Ordinary people find themselves drawn into a merciless conflict between two departments, the KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, for power. One evening, a troubled teenager comes to the local police officer, senior police lieutenant Kirill Nesterov, with a suspicious package containing rare canvases by Russian artists. Kirill had no idea that this episode would become only the first step in a series of further events that would threaten not only his views on life, but also life itself!

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Pretty innocent game of two boys caused the man's death. Now they have to decide what to do: hide it or tell the truth...

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The story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.

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Vera and Nikita have been married for 3 years. In the midst of another joyful quarrel they exchange views on what should be a "normal man" and "a good wife." And the next morning ... everyone wakes up with a "perfect half." Nikita has a blonde wife blonde, which is a good cook; Vera has a caring husband, a businessman, he buys her favorite breakfast croissants. With whom is life better? Be careful with your dreams - sometimes they come true!

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